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by Oreb 7y ago
Are you sure swipe-style is more popular? My anecdotal experience is that hardly anyone even knows swipe typing is possible until I show them. I mostly interact with people aged between 25 and 50. Perhaps swipe typing is more common among y
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by Oreb 7y ago
You're welcome! Please note the "use Revise.jl" part. The includet function is not included in the base language, you need the Revise.jl package.
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by Oreb 7y ago
Better yet, use Revise.jl and do julia> includet("file.jl") # Notice the final 't' in 'includet' This will cause file.jl to get automatically reloaded whenever it is changed.
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by Oreb 7y ago
> Julia base syntax is closer to how people write math As someone who is a Julia fan, but has a background from mathematics rather than computer science, I don't agree. Julia syntax resembles mathematics only on a very superficial t
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by Oreb 7y ago
Why? Even as a professional developer, it’s extremely unusual that my cljs work requires any JS familiarity. I don’t see why a complete beginner would even need to know that JS exists.
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by Oreb 7y ago
Lisp (especially Common Lisp) works just fine as an imperative language, even if it’s not the most common style. And there are entire books written about using Lisp for game development. If the goal is for a beginner (whether child or adult
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by Oreb 7y ago
I have changed the values of dotspacemacs-smartparens-strict-mode and dotspacemacs-smart-closing-parenthesis from the default nil to t in my .spacemacs file. As far as I can remember, that's the only paredit-ish customisations I have d
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by Oreb 7y ago
I love writing Lisp and do it for a living, but I can’t even remember the last time I had to write a single line of elisp to use Emacs (unless you count things like adding or removing a layer in my .spacemacs file as writing Lisp).
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by Oreb 7y ago
According to the paper: > All experiments were run using third generation Google Cloud TPUs [12]. For each board game, we used 16 TPUs for training and 1000 TPUs for selfplay. For each game in Atari, we used 8 TPUs for training and 32 TP
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by Oreb 7y ago
I have no personal experience whatsoever with these, but the Corsair keyboards have a very bad reputation among mechanical keyboard enthusiasts. Allegedly the keycaps are made of low quality ABS plastic, and because some of the keys are non
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by Oreb 7y ago
> It is the best REPL I have ever used. It beats anything I have used for Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Lua etc. This is true, but that's a _very_ low bar to pass. Julia is a Lisp, and deserve to be compared to other Lisps rather than t
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by Oreb 7y ago
> I'd prefer a balance of making work more enjoyable and feel the lunch socializing contributes to that. I want to feel that way, too, but unfortunately long lunches -- and especially social ones -- kill my momentum. I lose so much
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by Oreb 7y ago
I think a 75% keyboard like the Vortex Race 3 would suit your needs: https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/shop/index.php?l=product_lis...
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by Oreb 7y ago
“Where could I find” is indeed an important question, but it is not obvious to me that hierarchical namespaces are the best solution. Couldn’t something like a list of tags attached to every function/type/whatever be at least as e
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by Oreb 7y ago
Thank you, but unfortunately, that sounds like exactly the kind of book I don't want. Like I said, I'm not looking for books that present some particular language, framework or toolkit.
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Ask HN: What Neural Networks/Deep Learning Books Should I Read?
275 points by Oreb 7y ago|48 comments
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by Oreb 7y ago
> Haskell is IMO the only paren-free Lisp that works. Out of curiosity: Do you think Julia is not a Lisp, or that Julia doesn’t work?
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by Oreb 7y ago
Which is why Julia offers the `fld1`, `mod1` and `fldmod1` functions: https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/base/math/#Base.fld1
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by Oreb 7y ago
As a (mostly) outsider, I’ve never understood why JavaScript is so popular in web dev circles. There are so many awesome compile-to-JS languages these days (ClojureScript, PureScript, Elm, ReasonML, Scala.js, etc). What makes people want to
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by Oreb 7y ago
> - The vocabulary is a big part of the language learning and it is hard to even begin with when the target vocabulary resembles nothing in your original tongues. While this is true for Esperanto, it is also true for any other language,
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by Oreb 7y ago
I've never tried to learn Dutch, but I found German _much_ easier to learn than English. The German grammar and spelling are so regular, consistent and simple compared to English.
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by Oreb 7y ago
I loved Land of Lisp , but found Clojure for the Brave and True annoying. To me, LoL is hilarious, while CftBaT tries to be funny, but fails.
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by Oreb 8y ago
> Stack Overflow has answers like: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454 Wow. That's one of the funniest things I've seen on the Internet. Do you have any more like this?
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by Oreb 8y ago
> I have a bunch of Swedish friends who all came back from work trips to Norway, cursing, because the &¤#&#"&"# Norwegians would schedule meetings over lunch, and then everyone else would just pull up their /¤#
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by Oreb 8y ago
Where I live (Oslo, Norway), the predictions of Dark Sky and Weather Underground are both less accurate than just making an uneducated guess based on how the weather has been developing the last couple of days. I guess they work better in N
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by Oreb 8y ago
In case you didn’t know: You can choose to always display scroll bars in the macOS system preferences.
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by Oreb 8y ago
Possibly stupid questions from someone completely ignorant about hardware: If they didn’t care about backwards compatibility, would it be possible for them to release versions of their CPUs with _only_ the microcode layer? If yes, would a s
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by Oreb 8y ago
> It’s almost like news about algebra There are plenty of algebra conferences, though. I’ve been to several. :-) I agree with your general point, but algebra isn’t quite as slow-moving as you seem to believe.
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by Oreb 8y ago
Linguists don't really believe in objectively easy or difficult languages. Subjective difficulty depends on your interests and what languages you already know. As a Norwegian, I found German far easier to learn than English, French a
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by Oreb 8y ago
People have different styles of learning. I loved LYaHfGG, but hated Haskell Programming from First Principles. As is evident from this thread, many others feel the opposite way. Both books deserve to exist and be shared frequently.

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